KLRC New Zealand Open 2008 Day 2 (Wednesday 12-Nov-2008)

[chris-ccc]

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Greetings,

KLRC New Zealand Open 2008 Day 2 (Wednesday 12-Nov-2008)

As our BCers in New Zealand and Australia are preparing to go to bed, we are all thinking of the matches to be played tomorrow.

Some interesting matches could be:

Womens Singles:
(1) Renuga.Veeran(AUS) vs Melissa.Yin(NZL)
(2) Melicia Kurniawan(INA) vs Clare Chapple(NZL)

Mens Singles:
(1) Jeremy Liu(NZL) vs Alister Casey[7](SCO)

Womens Doubles:
(1) Renuga Veeran/Kate Wilson-Smith(AUS) vs Emma Chapple/Jessica Jonggowisastro(NZL)

Mens Doubles:
(1) Craig Cooper/John Moody(NZL) vs John Gordon/Daniel Shirley(NZL)
(2) Oliver Leydon-Davis/Joe Wu(NZL) vs Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS) Would you believe this?

Mixed Doubles:
(1) Chen Hung Ling/Chou Chia Chi[1](TPE) vs Daniel Shirley/Renee Flavell(NZL)


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[Oldhand]

Mens Doubles:
(2) Oliver Leydon-Davis/Joe Wu(NZL) vs Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS) Would you believe this?

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Ahem, any prize money involved?

[chris-ccc]

Ahem, any prize money involved?

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Of course there will be prize money for Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS), if they were to win the MD Finals.

But they might give it back to KLRC.
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[badMania]

Ahem, any prize money involved?

I think all players would get some money.

[eaglehelang]

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(2) Oliver Leydon-Davis/Joe Wu(NZL) vs Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS) Would you believe this?




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Hope someone records it on private digicam. Curious to see how the uncles of uncles in the baddy world are playing.

[chris-ccc]

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badMania ... INA players should have no problem winning matches on Day 2.

We should expect all INA players to move on to Day 3, namely;
Tommy Sugiarto,
Melicia Kurniawan,
Wifqi Windarto/Afiat Yuris Wirawan, and
Lingga/Fernando Kurniawan


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[chris-ccc]

Hope someone records it on private digicam. Curious to see how the uncles of uncles in the baddy world are playing.

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eaglehelang ... Tactically, they should win. But physically, they could lose.

Yes, it would be nice to watch how the uncles of uncles play.
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[george@chongwei]

chris@ccc, wil u be going to watch this tournament in NZ???

[chris-ccc]

chris@ccc, wil u be going to watch this tournament in NZ???

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There is no way that I could get away from my Badminton commitments in Melbourne, Australia.


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[george@chongwei]

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There is no way that I could get away from my Badminton commitments in Melbourne, Australia.


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hmm..sorry to hear that
btw, seems that u are very excited about this NZ Open untill cannot sleep, eh?

[jhirata]

Oh dear. Alistair Casey stole one of my shuttles. I was taking a break after a set, then he walked onto my court and picked up my AS40 shuttle and threw it into his.. multitude of training shuttles. D:

Quite alot of the participants in the KLRC NZ Open are either from my school or the girl-school which is very near it. These players include: Ethan Haggo, Jessica Jonggowisastro, Anona Pak, Aviva Pak, Melissa Yin & Henry Tam. I have a long way to go until I can make it into the premier team....

Some of them asked me at what round the prize-money will start to be given.. quarter finals ? semi's ? .. I'm a volunteer at this tournament but I don't know yet.

[chris-ccc]

hmm..sorry to hear that
btw, seems that u are very excited about this NZ Open until cannot sleep, eh?

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Rarely, International Badminton are played in Australia / New Zealand. But when they do, there will be great excitement in our countries Down Under.
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[badMania]

No surprises today as the Djarum MD pairs all advance. But, Edo/Lingga's performance is not that convincing today They will have an interesting match against John Gordon/Daniel Shirley (Dan won the bronze-medal with Sara Runesten-Petersen in XD of WC in 2005) tomorrow.

[jhirata]

Womens Singles:
(1) Renuga.Veeran(AUS) vs Melissa.Yin(NZL)
-Veeran did a head-shot at Melissa Yin.. ouch.

(2) Melicia Kurniawan(INA) vs Clare Chapple(NZL)
-Clare Chapple has suprisingly alot of power in her shots, considering her.. weight which is probably below 40kgs.

(3) Zhou Mi (HKG) vs Anna Rankin (NZL)
-Anna Rankin gave her best shot against the former bronze-medallist, whilst Zhou Mi was.. smiling as she gave away points.

Mens Singles:
(1) Jeremy Liu(NZL) vs Alister Casey[7](SCO)
-Jeremy Liu was a piece of cake for Alistair, the difference in power in their shots were clearly visible..

(2) Lee Tseung Seng (MAS) vs James Eunson (NZL)
-James Eunson is still a junior player. The crowd cheered for him as he.. blasted his best shots at the Malaysian second seed.

Womens Doubles:
(1) Renuga Veeran/Kate Wilson-Smith(AUS) vs Emma Chapple/Jessica Jonggowisastro(NZL)

(2) Aviva Pak/Anona Pak (NZL) vs Mary O'Connor/
The Pak sisters had a bad start, consequtively giving away points by unforced-errors.
They won the second set 24-22, and sadly lost the third set, upsetting the crowd that cheered for them.

Mens Doubles:
(1) Craig Cooper/John Moody(NZL) vs John Gordon/Daniel Shirley(NZL)
(2) Oliver Leydon-Davis/Joe Wu(NZL) vs Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS)
-The young, athletic Kiwis.. suprisingly lost their first set to the hard-out uncles from Malaysia.. The Malaysian pair didn't have any tricks behind their sleeves, but they were the masters of the basics.

Mixed Doubles:
(1) Chen Hung Ling/Chou Chia Chi[1](TPE) vs Daniel Shirley/Renee Flavell(NZL)
-Chen H L looks rather much like an ordanary bright Asian uni student.. but his smashes were crazy.. and Daniel Shirley, the wormer World Championships bronze medallist just.. smashed like he's got steroids ( apparently it's all skills )..

[etudiant]

jhirata, thx 4 the live report....keep it coming as this tourney reach crucial round.......

[eaglehelang]

LOL, they actually won .

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eaglehelang ... Tactically, they should win. But physically, they could lose.

Yes, it would be nice to watch how the uncles of uncles play.
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[chris-ccc]

LOL, they actually won

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I haven't watched that match ... but I would just guess that Cheah Soon Kit/Ong Beng Teong(MAS) were only there to have a good time, and to make their match as interesting as it could get.

Winning by 23-21, 22-20 could not be anything but fun.
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